GEORGE PEABODY EL

GEORGE PEABODY EL operates as a tight-knit elementary-level community in DALLAS, Texas, overseen by DALLAS ISD. Current enrollment sits at 318 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 39% below typical.

GEORGE PEABODY EL is one of 240 schools operated by DALLAS ISD, a district that hosts 140,630 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, GEORGE PEABODY EL logs that 91% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest is composed of 4% White, 3% Black. By comparison, Dallas County as a whole is about 41% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 95% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Dallas County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, GEORGE PEABODY EL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 32.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 43.8%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Dallas County indicate median household earnings sit near $76,547, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Dallas County runs 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), of which GEORGE PEABODY EL is one.

The closest other public school is ARTURO SALAZAR EL, roughly 0.7 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts GEORGE PEABODY EL at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 38.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. GEORGE PEABODY EL's enrollment has shrank 41% since 2018, when it stood at 535 (now 318). The Hispanic share of enrollment declined from 96% to 91% over that span.

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